The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-12-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

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Private letters received In New York from
Panama report that no work OF any I'M
portance Is being done on the canal. The
statement of M. Blanchet in his recent work
ON the Panama canal, that the canal has al
ready cost over 10000 lives, is believed by
careful observers here to BIO no exaggeration.
The big gold strike up the Hassayampa
, river is corroborated from dozen authentic
/ sources, and the excitement Is increasing
rapidly. Miners and adventures are pour
| ing in from all directions, Pieces Of gold as
large as $40 pieces can be seen all over the
| quartz, II is said that the gold ledge aver
| ages over $1,000 per ton, and tons are in
| sight. The shaft is now down IL feet, and
very rich pocket of ore was encountered at a
depth of three or four feet from which $4,000
or $1,000 were taken. 1t may be truthfully
said that the prospect is the richest, as far as
worked, that has ever been discovered in this
| section. Preparations are being made to
| sink deeper on the vein, and the mine bids
fair to develop into one of the richest mines
in the world,
Two special freight trains on the Cairo,
Vincennes a. Chicago line collided while
rounding curve two miles below Tunnel
HILL Ill. Both engineers and a fireman and
breakman were killed, and both trains were
badly damaged. The accident was due to an
error in the orders given by the train dis
patcher.
Capt. Bunce of the United States ship At
lanta is indignant at the report sent out from
Washington concerning his letter to the
navy department and his recommendation
of changes on the Atlanta, He says, the re-
| port was greatly exaggerated, and that the
changes he recommends were not such as to
warrant the statement that the vessel is
| practically worthless nor such rs to cost
$780, 900 as reported. He will await the dis
closure Of the contents Of his letter by the
navy department.
| While depot hack containing several pas
sengers, was turning corneri in Maiden, Mass,
it was overturned, and all the passengers
received bad shaking up. The driver was
also badly cut The hack was badly wrecked.
A gentleman in Portland, Me-, received a
| dynamite bomb in package from Boston.
He opened it so slowly that it did not ex-
| plode. He took it to the police, who refuse
to divulge the recipients name or to show
the bomb to reporters
The Manchester g. Lawrence railroad will
shortly institute suit in equity against the
Concord railroad corporation to recover
| has been received and retained by the Con-
cord road in excess of its proportion while
| the Manchester & Lawrence was operated by
the Concord officials.
In dissecting the carcass of the elephant
| Alice, that was burned in the fire at the Bar
mum & Bailey winter quarters, there were
found over 800 pennies, part OF pocket
knife four cane ferules, piece OF lead pipe
and some pebbles.
John H. Bigus was hanged at Frederick,
Nd, by mob of 100 men. When the dawn
came tho sheriff's officers found the body
hanging from tree in the woods. His crime
was that he forced his way into Mrs. Yeakle's
house and assaulted her.
The wife and eight children of laborer in
the salt mills in Syracuse, n. Y, were lost
with the steamer w. A. Scholten Frost came
from West Prussia about nine months ago,
and saved all his money to pay for the pas
sage of his wife and children. 1t took all his
savings, Sl53, to buy the tickets.
The steamer Charles p Choteau was
| burned at Sundower Landing near the
mouth of the Yazoo river, with $500 bales of
cotton 1000 sacks of oil cake, 500 empty bar
| rels and seven racehorSes. A German deck
passenger and negro fremen lost their
lives.
Twenty-six shoe manufacturers of Roches-
| ter, n. Y, have posted notices in their shops
announcing that when they begin spring
work they will require their employees to
work six days in the week. They say that
| the observance of the Saturday half-holiday
has prevented them from competing success
fully with manufacturers in places where the
half-holiday is not observed.
John Harte, formerly manager Of tie
| Harte g. Smith Manufacturing Company at
Belleville, Ont, has been arrested on charge
Of embczzling funds of the company, amount
ing to about $4,000.
George Francis Train has wired his former
private secretary, George P. Bemis, that he
felt sure his daughter and the children and
birds of Madison square were pulling him
back, and that he had abandoned the idea of
expatriation.
The leather manufacturers of Newark, N.
j., are so busy that they are taking some men
back who went on strike last summer, with
out requiring them to sign a paper refusing
to join any labor union. This is done because
there is pressing need for good japanners.
Some one tore away the foundation of the
cornerstone of q memorial chapel which
James A. Webb wholesale alcohol merchant
of New York is building at Madison, N. j., in
memory of his son, and SO uncovered the box
in which number Of coins and other articles
lad been deposited, land distracted the
contents.
The Cleveland police expect to run down
the two companions of Tom Scott, the burg
lar that was shot by policemen recently. 1t
is now known that the gang intended to blow
open the vault of the Broadway Savings
Bank, and that their tools and dynamite
were in the basket over which the fight be-
gan. The bank had S100, 001 in its vault, il
being the day preceding payday at the mills.
1t is now certain that the dead robher was
one of the Blinky Morgan gang, and part
ner of the Lowrys and Rowlands, who are
all outlaws J. s. Foster, who was q guard
in the Albany penitentiary in 1870, and now
lives here, recognized Scott as prisoner
who was sent to prison for IS years for a
robbery committed at Manhattanville. He
served Is years, and was released.
Judge Johnston at Ravenna, O., overruled
the motion for new trial in the case Of
"Blinky" Morgan, and sentenced the prisoner
, to be hanged in the peniteutiary at Colum
bus, March l6, 1883.
The mangled body of Frank Gresko, {
, Hungarian, was found on the track of the
: Pennsylvania s. Schuyikill Valley railroad
near Pottstown, Pa, and, on subsequent ex
animation, three bullet holes were found ir
Gresko's head. He was recently married
and jealous companions are suspected of fou
play.
The trouble with Louisiana strikers is be
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